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Definition of Turkic
1. Adjective. Of or relating to the people who speak the Turkic language.
2. Noun. A subfamily of Altaic languages.
Generic synonyms: Altaic, Altaic Language
Specialized synonyms: Turkish, Turcoman, Turkmen, Turkoman, Azerbaijani, Kazak, Kazakh, Tatar, Usbeg, Usbek, Uzbak, Uzbeg, Uzbek, Uighur, Uigur, Uygur, Yakut, Khirghiz, Kirghiz, Kirgiz, Karakalpak, Chuvash, Chagatai, Eastern Turki, Jagatai, Jaghatai
Definition of Turkic
1. a. Turkish.
Definition of Turkic
1. Proper noun. The language family that includes Turkish, Tatar, Bashkir, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azeri, Kyrgyz, Uyghur, Tuvan, Altai, Shor, Karakalpak, Khakas, Chuvash and any of the other dozens of languages spoken by Turkic peoples. It may be a subfamily of an Altaic language family. ¹
2. Adjective. Of or relating to this language group or the people who speak it. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Turkic
Literary usage of Turkic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the by Richard Hakluyt (1904)
"... and in other places in Turkic, touching our Clothing and our Dying, and things
that bee incident to the same, and touching ample vent of our naturall ..."
2. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... sold, sent into Turkic, and over the Black Sea to Tartaria. His admirable
escape and other travels in divers parts of Christendome. this dismall battell ..."
3. Central Asia and the World: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan by Michael Mandelbaum (1994)
"The Iranians were there first, living in agricultural oasis settlements, surrounded
by growing numbers of nomadic and seminomadic Turkic and Turko-Mongol ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"As regards the mutual relations of all the groups, little more can now be said
than that they fall naturally into two main divisions — Mongolo- Turkic and ..."
5. Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or Philosophical by Victoria Institute (Great Britain) (1890)
"Tar or tur is a Turkic word for chief, and the t may be a case ending. It frequently
is incorporated in names of the present class. ..."
6. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"Up en tell me like a man how I gwine ter git yo' shell off! ' " Brer Mud
Turkic 'low, 'Put me in de mud en rub my back hard ez you kin. ..."
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